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The origins of NextGen began in the early 2000s, when the Department of Transportation (DOT) announced that they would be beginning a multi-agency, mult-year modernization of the air traffic system that would extend into the future at least 25 years. According to the FAA, implementing and maintaining NextGen programs will cost about $37 billion through 2030.

The goals of NextGen are relatively straight-forward. With the increasing rise of air traffic in the United States, the FAA felt they needed a way to streamline air traffic in order to allow more planes in the sky to accommodate growing passenger and cargo traffic. NextGen promises to reduce emissions by having planes fly more “efficient” routes, to standardize access to weather information, to reduce separation minimums between aircraft, to improve communications across the airspace system, and to improve onboard technology.

In its vast consultations with aviation experts (both at the FAA and outsourced to contractors like MITRE), the FAA appears to have very conspicuously left out one key constituency – the communities located underneath these new “efficient” flightpaths. As these communities were to soon find out, that was not an oversight on the FAA’s part. Since the first implementation of NextGen in Phoenix, Arizona (which resulted in a lawsuit against the FAA by the City of Phoenix), communities across America have found themselves the victims of non-stop air and noise pollution by these newly “efficient” flightpaths.

Communities that once experienced 10-20 flights overhead daily now found themselves subject to 200-300 flights a day overhead, at elevations thousands of feet lower than previous flightpaths. The FAA has insisted that “no new noise” has been created by NextGen flightpaths. Yet, the numbers speak for themselves. 

Media Coverage Of FAA’s NextGen Air And Noise Pollution

Since the implementation of NextGen, there’s been a steady escalation of media coverage of the problem. A recent Google search of the following search terms yielded some pretty astonishing results...

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Congress And NextGen

The original roots of NextGen are in a bill Congress passed in December of 2003, the “Vision 100 – A Century Of Aviation Reauthorization Act.” The goals of the broad-based bill were many, but the particular outcome of the bill that has directly led to the problems related to ...

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NextGen And Health Impacts

For the citizens living under the NextGen flightpaths, there is an incredible amount of concern about the cumulative impacts of hundreds of low-flying airplanes releasing toxic particulate matter emissions daily over communities.

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NextGen And Community Response

There are currently almost fifty separate community activist groups across the country at the city, county and regional level trying to get the FAA to work with them to do something about the devastation that NextGen has brought upon their communities...

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FAA vs. Communities Around America: A Litigation Timeline

As the first community to instigate litigation against the FAA in the wake of NextGen, the City of Phoenix entered uncharted waters. When the FAA instituted the new NextGen flightpaths in September 2014, the City of Phoenix sued in the U.S. Court of Appeals for The District of Columbia Circuit in June 2015.

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FAA NextGen: Myth vs. Reality

There’s so much information floating around about NextGen from multiple sources. The FAA, recently on the defensive with more and more Members of Congress demanding answers, has stepped-up its propaganda campaign touting all the amazing benefits of NextGen. In response to the FAA’s NextGen charm offensive, it’s probably a good time to take a step-back ...

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